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I don’t mean to be picking on Mayor Hannemann, but with the mayor’s race coming up next year, his campaign and the interest groups backing him are of public interest.

Hannemann had 630 reported contributions which brought in a total of $479,858.18 during the first six months of this year, quite a respectable sum.

I haven’t really had time yet to noodle around with the data. Here’s a list of the top individual contributors who gave $4,000 each, which is the maximum allowed during the election period.

Of initial interest are those who doubled up, such as the two execs from Irongate AZREP BW LLC, one of the entities behind the Trump Tower in Waikiki, who combined for $8,000 this time around on top of the other Irongate money that came in earlier reporting cycles.

Adam and Marina Cohn of Los Angeles also added $8,000, as did Mordecai Wiczyk and Kate Phillips Wiczyk of Beverly Hills.

I’ll have to come back to this after getting a chance to browse through the numbers for a bit. There are other companies and interests that gave substantial amounts via smaller contributions from numbers of executives or employees, and I’ll try to point out some of those.

The mayor’s full campaign report is available at the Campaign Spending Commission web site. By the way, the Commission’s new online filing system works well, and appears to make information available to the public at the same time that it is filed by the candidates. No processing lag appears to be involved.

Meanwhile, we’re enjoying this period of kitten energy in the house despite the extra work and the psychological woes of the other cats.

Duke was the first, and so far the only one of the other cats to recognize that kitten could be a playmate. Just click on the napping kitten for a few more photos.